How to display title in pretty table in python?

Question

I was trying to display the title in prettyTable but not sure what is wrong here -

#!/usr/bin/python3
from prettytable import PrettyTable
hostname = "abc.com"
table = PrettyTable()
table.title = hostname
table.field_names = ['hostname', 'process']
table.add_row(['abc.com', '31324'])
table.add_row(['abc.com', '42230'])
print(table)

Output -

+----------+---------+
| hostname | process |
+----------+---------+
| abc.com  |  31324  |
| abc.com  |  42230  |
+----------+---------+

Expected Output -

+----------+---------+
|       abc.com      |
+----------+---------+
| hostname | process |
+----------+---------+
| abc.com  |  31324  |
| abc.com  |  42230  |
+----------+---------+

Possible duplicate of [Python PrettyTable: Add title above the table's header](https://stackoverflow.com/a/46434781/1898437). — Anoop R Desai, Sep 02 '19 at 06:43

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 02 '19 at 06:47

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The issue is that you are using the prettytable package (c. 2013) and not the PTable package (c. 2015). Both provide the prettytable module. Only the PTable package supports table titles.

answered Sep 02 '19 at 06:47

Dan D.

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 02 '19 at 06:33

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according to this doc this should work (not tested):

print(table.get_string(title="abc.com"))

answered Sep 02 '19 at 06:33

hiro protagonist

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yes, I tested, it works this way – Yuri Malheiros Jun 25 '22 at 13:14

How to display title in pretty table in python?

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